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It was joy for over 30 inmates at the Migori GK Prison after Suna East women group donated 47 chicken for the inmates to start poultry farming, amongst other freebies including sanitary towels, soaps, toothpaste, and other items.

Migori County Commissioner Mr Chepchem who also accompanied the women to prison, said that 30 per cent of tenders in the county governments have been reserved for women and youth groups and advised the registered groups to apply for them.

Reading from a document the commissioner informed on the requirements to qualification for tender awarding after which 47 chicken were given out to kick start the chicken project.

According to Miss Judy Mwangi the Chairlady of the self-help group, the chicken taken to prison were meant to provide eggs that will be a change in diet for the women and children raised in the prison.

‘The chicken will be taken care of by three people from our group who will be checking in to bring food and medication, the chicken are meant to supplement the diet of children raised in the prison and women’ she said.

The project is also meant to empower the prison women economically as the chicken are expected to multiply and be sold to help the women in prison buy personal effects.

In their midst Miss Susan Owino County chair for ‘Maendeleo ya wanawake’ said the women in prison are not forgotten.
‘What Suna East Women Sacco Society have done is not an everyday undertaking, we are grateful and we also urge the men out there to follow into their footsteps,’ she said.

The self -help group works to empower the local women in Migori through ‘Chamas’ and loans to start small scale businesses.